"Us and Them" by Pink Floyd

Wednesday: I guess I should start this on a positive note, since the rest of this isn’t going to be happy. Dontay, who is a work study in the lab I work at, informed me that the professor we had last semester is assembling a research team. So I sent Dr. Stoudt an email expressing my interest and got into the team. This is something I wanted to do for while which definitely looks great for grad school applications and resumes. I have had interest in doing research since Shea mentioned it when we were talking about grad school.

Jessica called me yesterday all upset to tell me how she placed a child from a foster home to a foster parent. The child is 2 and how she was holding the kid. The foster parent called Jessica yesterday to inform her that the child has scabies. She asked me if that was the one that sailors get and I pointed out, no that’s scurvy. She then realized that scabies are the ones that burrow under your skin. I told her they are highly contagious as well. I could hear in her tone she was ready to cry, and or possibly vomit on herself. She said she would go to a doctor to see what preventative measures there are for her. I am not going near her for a long while. Unfortunately she has my copy of Rant…

My mother informed me how, when she was coming home from taking a walk with my father, that she saw the son from upstairs in front of the house smoking. So she pulled the car up in front of the house, and let my father out. The son, Kevin, looked up and realized that my mother saw him and said “Oh shit” and ran into the house. My mother wanted to email his mother and say that she saw him smoking, that she knows those cigarette butts that were found in the yard were his. But my father advised her to not do that. When we discussed it last night, my mother wasn’t really sure why but basically we think the reason why he doesn’t want her to tell his mother is because nothing is going to be done over the situation. So I told her that I think that she should just take into consideration all these things and tell her that the end of January or the beginning of February, that if her son doesn’t leave her lease will not be renewed. Yeah, it’s harsh, but he didn’t sign the lease his mother did and he is violating all of these rules that are set up which are cause for eviction.

I am also starting to think that my macbook needs to be repaired. Well just the monitor anyway. The sides of the monitor have this weird marking down it resembling water marks. When I clean the monitor I don’t use a lot of cleaner so I doubt its my fault. The monitor also has a dead pixel that has been harassing me for over a year now that needs to go. So hopefully if I call I get this set up sometime soon. I will miss having this computer around for a few days. But I need to get this done before my warranty ends. I guess I’ll get this taken care of in a week or so, maybe a month.